Sunday, September 6, 2015

Upon further review

As I had mentioned last week, I finally took the time yesterday to go over the 3 binders that comprise the SNI set. My lackadaisical tendency to put the cards away at times led me to believe that I may have made some mistakes when it came to reconciliation time on the spreadsheet.

I did better than I thought. I was only missing 3 cards that I had on the spreadsheet. Not a major catastrophe, but it means that I now have 23 serial #'s left to find for the set. It also means that the post last week about 23 teams being complete is also incorrect. I'm back down to 21, as 2 of the 3 cards I was missing were for Red Sox players, and the 3rd was a Pirate.

Going through the pages also allowed me to stumble on something that I found interesting. Cards # 620 and 621 to be precise...

Back to back in the set are a pair of Kevin Youkilis cards. Totally unintentional. Even better is that they are from 2 different teams with Sox as their nickname.

I also noticed that I had 2 Yovani Gallardo cards from the same set (2012 Topps Heritage), although those serial numbers are quite far apart, 382 and 1129. I may have some fun when this set is completed, figuring out such things as which player appears the most, which set is represented the most, etc.